Winners of the Miss Rose beauty pageant join a parade during the annual Rose Festival in Kalaat M'Gouna, Morocco, Wednesday, May 7, 2025. Credit: AP/Mosa'ab Elshamy.

Mosa'ab Elshamy. Winners of the Miss Rose beauty pageant join a parade during the annual Rose Festival in Kalaat M'Gouna, Morocco, Wednesday, May 7, 2025.

A bumper rose harvest is good news for the farmers of Kalaat M’Gouna, Morocco, which celebrates the Damask rose in an international festival.

Winners of the Miss Rose beauty pageant join a parade during the annual Rose Festival in Kalaat M'Gouna, Morocco, Wednesday, May 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy) ...

Winners of the Miss Rose beauty pageant join a parade during the annual Rose Festival in Kalaat M'Gouna, Morocco, Wednesday, May 7, 2025.

KALAAT M’GOUNA, Morocco (AP) — Gloved and armed with shears, women weave through thorny brambles, clipping and tossing their harvest into wheelbarrows. “Thank God for the rain,” said rose ...

Winners of the Miss Rose beauty pageant join a parade during the annual Rose Festival in Kalaat M'Gouna, Morocco, Wednesday, May 7, 2025.

Winners of the Miss Rose beauty pageant join a parade during the annual Rose Festival in Kalaat M'Gouna, Morocco, Wednesday, May 7, 2025.

Roses are dried on a rooftop during the annual Rose Festival in Kalaat M’Gouna, Morocco, Tuesday, May 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Mosa’ab Elshamy) Show Caption. 1 of 5.

KALAAT M'GOUNA, Morocco (AP) — Gloved and armed with shears, women weave through thorny brambles, clipping and tossing their harvest into wheelbarrows. “Thank God for the rain,” said rose ...

Roses are dried on a rooftop during the annual Rose Festival in Kalaat M’Gouna, Morocco, Tuesday, May 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Mosa’ab Elshamy) by: SAM METZ, Associated Press.